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WiFi is 50% the speed of using Ethernet cable?

rruwalton

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I would be much obliged for help with the following issue please.

TalkTalk have just upgraded my speed from 38mb to 76mb foc

Connecting the laptop to the HG633 TalkTalk router gives me 75.3mb.
However, WiFi is only giving me between 38 and 40.
When I had 38mb I lost about 3mb using WiFi, but the loss on 76mb is appalling.

I've had the laptop at the side of the router and 15 feet away and there's no real difference.

Could this be a setting on the router or could the router be faulty. Unfortunately, I don't have another fibre router.

Thank you
Richard
 
Tried my smartphone and tablet and they're all more or less the same. Surely wifi isn't limited to 40mb?
 
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Been looking on the TalkTalk forums and there was a lot if comments about the poor performance of the HG633.

Just can't afford to go out and buy a different router.

I have an old d-link router but that was used for standard broadband.

Seems there's an upgrade on the Huawei HG633 firmware 1.15T to 1.16T but can't find it to try it out.
 
Can you try changing the antenna?? I dont know the Huawei router, so I dont know if they are detachable - same for the PC end - bigger antenna can help sometimes.

Actual throughput speeds on Wifi are never what they claim, my 300Mb "N" spec router claimed a full 3ooMb connection to my PC, but actual throughput was nearer 70-75Mb most of the time, and its "ac" replacement dropped to 30-35Mb on 2.4Ghz, and only manages 140Mb on 5Ghz, despite claiming a 450Mb connection (with the standard antenna).
 
Thanks for your comments.
Here's some info on the router http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/modem-routers/talktalk-super-router-review-3625746/

Looking across other sites ii get the impression that I wouldn't get more speed than I get already
I've tested the router using my Smart phone and tablet and they're all pretty much producing the same results.

Glad I didn't pay extra for 76mb as it's unlikely I'm going to be able to make use of the speed. Everything in the house is WiFi and I'm not running cables just for the laptop. Desktop is redundant nowadays.
 
No external antenna, the router is the weak link.

I dont understand why there are no 5Ghz "N" speeds for the TP Link, my AC750 does the 2.4 & 5GHz separately, so why the 900 doesnt is a mystery, BIOS issues perhaps??

I cant remember what your house situation is rru, if you have lots of walls in the way, then a strong 2.4GHz router is better, as 5GHz doesnt penetrate as well.

I am going to be trying my +9db antenna on my Archer 750, but they are black and it is white, so it wont look good; if it works well, I will have to stump up £30 odd for a set of white ones (or try painting them myself!!).

The other possible problem is Radio Frequency noise slowing you down; around here is is awful, we even lose TV signal for a couple of hours in the evening; yet have 100% strength and quality at other times of the day.
A few years back it was so bad, my PC and printer couldnt detect each other, despite being less than 1m apart.
 
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Thanks Ian.
Feedback from another forum suggests I shouldn't expect anything above 40mb from any of my gadgets; laptop, smart phone or tablet.

I would have liked to have utilised the bandwidth on my tablet as I use it to download

Cheers
Richard
 
The HG633 uses 802.11ac for its best speeds, but it's not so good on the older 802.11n standard. Does your laptop support 802.11ac? Also remember that the best speeds will use the 5GHz band, which has weaker coverage over distance and dies quite quickly when going through solid objects like walls. You might also find this article useful:

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...sting-home-wi-fi-wireless-network-speeds.html
 
What phone and tablet have you got, and what is the wifi spec in the laptop??

My cheapo Xiaomi HongMi phone used to connect to my old "N" spec router at over 70Mbps throughput (according to Speedtest.net), and SWMBO's Galaxy Tab4 does the same on the new routers 5Ghz band.

Have you tested them somewhere with a good fast connection??
 
Ian, I think the issue may well lay with the gadgets I have.

Tablet is a hudl2
Phone is a Vodaphone Smart Ultra 6
Laptop is a 3 year old HP Pavilion

I don't seem to have anything that can handle the 76mb

Router to living room is 15 to 20 feet. Unless I run a cat cable I'll never get 76mb on the laptop.
That either means pulling up carpets to hide the cable or surface wiring. Neither choice is great.

I'm wondering what use Virgin 100 and 200mbs is to those who have it, unless they all hard wire as WiFi surely won't deliver the top speeds.
 
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Just split my SSIDs

Tablet pushing 50mb 5mhz
Phone pushing 40mb 2.4mhz

So some improvement

Cheers
Richard
 
Your Hudl is newer than my Asus, which is the original MemoPad from 2012/3, it only has 2.4GHz; I dont know the phone, how cheap was it??

But as I said, they can only connect up to the max speed the router pushes out; if the router is slow, they will be slow; try a friends, or try a wifi hotspot somewhere (but not an O2 one, they are useless), and run speedtest.net.
 
I put a call into TalkTalk on Saturday and they called me this evening. After trying some settings the tech guy said he was sending me another router to try. Unfortunately, its another HG633. He thinks the WiFi output is lower than it should be on my current router.

The phone spec is here http://www.trustedreviews.com/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-review
Its a very good phone for the price. One of the few I haven't felt tempted to root and change the software.
 
I put a call into TalkTalk on Saturday and they called me this evening. After trying some settings the tech guy said he was sending me another router to try. Unfortunately, its another HG633. He thinks the WiFi output is lower than it should be on my current router.

The phone spec is here http://www.trustedreviews.com/vodafone-smart-ultra-6-review
Its a very good phone for the price. One of the few I haven't felt tempted to root and change the software.

That is a pretty decent spec; they dont test the Wifi in the review, but the cpu and RAM is more than enough to handle a high speed connection (4G goes to 150Mbps in theory); my RedMi connects on 2.4GHz at 65-70Mbps, which is BETTER than the PC right next to it can manage with 2 hefty 10" antenna coming out of the back.

ZTE make some pretty decent phones, so I am not surprised that the review gave it a high score.
 
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